The landa Surname
landa Name Meaning and History
- Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads in southwestern Norway, so named from the plural of land (see Land 1).
- Czech: from a short form of the personal name Mikulanda, a derivative of Mikuláš, Czech form of Greek Nikolaos (see Nicholas).
- Polish: nickname for a persistent and irritating person, from a derivative of the dialect verb landzic ‘to ask insistently’, ‘badger someone’.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): variant of Landau.
- Spanish and Basque: topographic name from the Basque landa ‘meadow’. There is a place of this name in Álava province, Basque Country, and the surname may in fact be a habitational name from this place.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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| LANDA, Anna abt 1810-1880; SEDLACEK; HÖNEL in Serovitz, Tabor, Pocatake, Bohemia/Czech and Vienna (Wien), Austria |
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